Occupation: Poet Birth: December 26, 1894 Death: March 30, 1967
Fear is a noose that binds until it strangles..
O singers, resinous and soft your songsAbove the sacred whisper of the pines,Give virgin lips to cornfield concubines,Bring dreams of Christ to dusky….
We do not posses imagination enough to sense what we are missing..
We never know we are beings till we love. And then it is we know the powers and potentialities of human existence..
We start with gifts. Merit comes from what we make of them..
The realization of ignorance is the first act of knowing..
Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity..
Acceptance of prevailing standards often means we have no standards of our own..
Talk about it only enough to do it. Dream about it only enough to feel it. Think about it only enough to understand it. Contemplate it only enough to….
Men are apt to idolize or fear that which they cannot understand, especially if it be a woman..
In a sick world, it is the first duty of the artist to get well..
some genius of the South With blood-hot eyes and cane-lipped scented mouth, Surprised in making folk-songs from soul sounds..
Whats beauty anyway but ugliness if it hurts you?.
Thank everyone who calls out your faults, your anger, your impatience, your egotism; do this consciously, voluntarily..
I am not less poet; I am more conscious of all that I am, am not, and might become..
No eyes that have seen beauty ever lose their sight..
Thunder blossoms gorgeously above our heads, Great, hollow, bell-like flowers.
One may receive the information but miss the teaching..
There is no such thing as happiness. Life bends joy and pain, beauty and ugliness, in such a way that no one may isolate them. No one should want to.….
People mistake their limitations for high standards..
The only way to seek God is to seek God first. Deny the nayward, affirm the yeaward, be true to those stirrings and motions which He starts in us, re….